If all of our arms manufacturers wanted to move offshore why we would we look at the free-trade position? Shouldn't we look at what is causing them to want to move in the first place? Like taxes and regulation?
Don’t be silly!
Absolutely. But you have to keep the patient alive for the medicine to work or even come at all. If a patient has cancer then death is a form of a cure.
Likewise If manufacturing is being overtaxed and over regulated moving it offshore is a cure but also a death of US manufacturing and security. Which is not a solution, just short sighted impatience.